Abstract
Inspired by the idea of safe citizenship this article queries the possibilities of safety in an age of securitization. It challenges the cosmopolitan worldview and its iteration of a global cosmopolitan citizen. It champions an account of affective citizenship, narration and attends to the trauma of exile. It offers an account of exile before suggesting an institutional design premised on politicization. This design, it is argued, facilitates moments of storytelling fostering individual empowerment. This unorthodox rendering of agency allows the traumatized exile to negotiate the world as it is, not as it could be, as a potential ‘safe’ citizen.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 228-242 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Citizenship Studies |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 1 Feb 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Bibliographical note
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Citizenship Studies on 1/2/16, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13621025.2015.1132565Keywords
- international political theory
- cosmopolitanism
- exile
- affective citizenship
- narrative politics